Re: Retiring pangox

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 21:53 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The pangox backend of pango have been deprecated for years (2001ish) and I'm
> going to remove it upstream in a week or two. Matthias suggested we get rid
> of it in f12. I totally welcome that. So I want to rebuild pango with pangox
> disabled in the coming days.
>
> I don't know of even one package that actually uses the pangox backend/API. I
> did a quick query [1] and seems like most packages linking to it are doing
> that because gtkglext2 wrongly has pangox in its .pc file. I will patch
> gtkglext2 to fix that, but all the dependent packages need to be rebuilt.
> There are some alarming ones though. In particular:
>
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-0:185.18.36-1.fc11.i586
> AdobeReader_deu-0:9.1.3-1.i486
> AdobeReader_jpn-0:9.1.3-1.i486
>
> Any help figuring out what's going on and how to move forward is appreciated.
Well, those are rpmfusion packages, not Fedora, so in some sense, meh.
But I bet those packages are just pulling in pangox from gtkglext2 too.
- ajax

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